Stories for Schools: A Beast by Guy Bass

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Stories for Schools: A Beast by Guy Bass

Stories for Schools is a British Council Turkey project to provide students with high-quality English language short stories.

A Beast is a short story written by Guy Bass, an award winning UK writer, author and illustrator of books for children.

Set in Istanbul, the story tells about a boy who meets something very surprising when he goes fishing in the Bosphorus. The story also contains a warning of the importance of getting on well with your brothers and sisters!

Level: A2-B1

Age: 14-17 (but activities included which may appeal to younger learners)

This ‘kit’ was designed by Turkish materials writers.

The kit below includes activities for you to print and copy, the complete text, and teachers' notes. The kit needs to be used selectively as each contains activities likely to appeal to different age groups.

Copyright - please read

All the materials on these pages are free for you to download and copy for educational use only. You may not redistribute, sell or place these materials on any other web site without written permission from the BBC and British Council. If you have any questions about the use of these materials please email us at: teachingenglish@britishcouncil.org